Our program emphasizes all of the following aspects in the duration of a class, without our participants even realizing it! Children leave our facility with smiles on and excited to tell their families what they learned today, not realizing all that was being taught!

The Benefits of an Early Years Dance Experience

(Recommended Start Age=3 Years Old)

Physical Development

• Moving safely, imaginatively and with confidence

• Moving with bodily control, co-ordination, flexibility and balance

• The development of spatial awareness

• Dancing with props; developing manipulative skills

• Experiencing a range of gross motor movements and fine motor movements

1. •Keeping healthy - dance as part of a healthy lifestyle
   

2. •Crossing the Midline of the Body
   

Creative Development 

• Expressing ideas, thoughts and feelings non-verbally through movement

• Using the imagination to create ideas, characters and narratives

1. •Making movement responses
   

2. •Musicality and Rhythm
   

Educational Development

1. •Appropriate Classroom Behaviors (Following Directions, Taking Turns, Self Discipline)
   

2. •Learning Rights and Lefts
   

3. •Telling Time (Clockwise vs. Counterclockwise)
   

4. •Sequential Learning
   

5. •Following Patterns
   

6. •Problem Solving
   

7. •The use of sounds, music, words, poems, rhymes, texts and stories as stimuli for, and
   

accompaniment to dance

1. •Developing vocabulary
   

2. •Mirroring movements of the Teacher
   

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Having an enjoyable, exciting and motivating time

• Working individually, with a partner and as part of a group

• Developing trust and co-operation

• Selecting and using movement ideas independently and with others

• Exploring feelings and views of self and others - including other cultures and beliefs

• Accepting the moral code on which discipline and courtesy within the group is based

1. •Interacting with a new social group